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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and 
THE PANJUB ; IN LADUKH AND KASHMIR ; IN PESHAWAR, 
Kabul, Kundez, and Bokhara. By Mr. William 
Moorcroft and Mr. George Trebeck, from, 1819 to 1825. 
Prepared for the Press from original Journals and Corre- 
spondence , by Horace Hayman Wilson, M.A. F.fi.S. In 
two vols. 8 vo, pp. 439 and 508. Murray, London, 1841. 
The traveller whose name stands first in the above announce- 
ment, whose adventurous spirit and laudable ambition for profes- 
sional distinction first induced him to quit his native country for 
Hindustan, and subsequently led him amid the wild and unknown 
mountains of Central Asia, was originally brought up as a sur- 
geon, but afterwards was persuaded to quit that line of life for 
the study of veterinary science, at the instigation of no less a man 
than the celebrated John Hunter. To St. Bel is justly assigned 
the merit of being the founder of veterinary schools in Britain. 
He was the first Professor at the present Royal Veterinary Col- 
lege of London ; though he was soon dislodged from his post of 
honour by death — too soon, indeed, to afford him time for carrying 
out plans he had in view, comprehensive and judicious, for the 
cultivation of an art up to that time, in our own country, in a 
sadly depressed and neglected condition. At St. Bel’s decease, 
the professorship fell into the joint hands of Moorcroft and Cole- 
man. This co-professorship, however, held together but a very 
short time. What the precise cause or nature of rupture was, we 
are hardly sufficiently well informed to trust ourselves to repeat ; 
though, from all that has reached our ears pertaining thereto, we 
should feel but little hesitation in believing that Moorcroft, with 
his chivalrous spirit and ambitious bent of mind, was a person ill 
calculated to play second fiddle to any man, even supposing he 
could for any very long time content himself with equipollent 
sway. Moorcroft’s star appears to have been ever on the ascen- 
dant. And that it rose, even before he quitted England, to a 
more than ordinary height among veterinary constellations, and 
gave promise of still higher flights, we are, we think, in posses- 
sion of satisfactory evidence to shew ; while the volumes before 
us — which, through the kind thoughtfulness of a valued friend 
